We’re delighted to open Dominique Hurth’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. In 2014, Hurth encountered four boxes of cyanotype prints by Thomas W. Smillie, the first custodian and curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of photography. In her artist book Stutters (Printed Matter, 2021), Hurth builds on several years’ research to rework the original cyanotypes into visual montage, sequencing images that provide a record of Museum life as it documents a ‘national’ collection in the making.

For her exhibition at Page Not Found, Hurth has developed a new installation that expands from her research and the material that created Stutters. The title refers to the photographic process of superimposition of two or more exposures on one image, and serves as a metaphor for the artist: as a way of looking at the history of the institution through the subjects of the photographs, and at the same time at the institution historicising its own history through the infrastructure of the archives.

Dominique Hurth’s exhibition is the first instalment of Mal d’Archive, the new public programme of Page Not Found, exploring the space between artistic, archival and publishing practices. This programme will span over several years and encompass events, exhibitions, workshops and residencies.

Dominique Hurth (1985, France) is a visual artist working with installations, sculptures and editions. Her work has been exhibited i.a. Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona; Memorial of Ravensbrück, Fürstenberg/Havel; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart) and is part of several collections. She is the recipient of several awards and residencies such as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016-17) and Prize of the Berliner Senate / Governing Mayor of Berlin at ISCP, New York (2014).

DOUBLE EXPOSURE(S)/ STUTTERS opens on March 8, 7 pm.
The exhibition is on view until May 8, free entrance.
Made possible with the financial support of the Mondriaan Fonds and Gemeente Den Haag.